Foot-bar for stoves



H. A.' MATTHEWS.

' FOOT BAR `190B swims. No. 312,877. .Patented Feb. 24,' 1885.

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HENRY A. MATTHEWS, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

FOOT-BAR FOR STOVES.

SPECIFICATION forming parl'. Of Letters Patent No. 312,877, dated February 24, 18815.

" Application filed January 2, 1885. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, HENRY A. MA'rrHEWs, of Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Foot-Bars forStoves; and Ido hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specilication, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a side view, one end being iu longitudinal central section; Fig. 2, a transverse section enlarged; Fig. 3, a modification showing the cap formed as a part of the tip.

This invention relates to an improvement i n the construction oi' bars such as applied to stoves, and upon which a person may place the feet as a rest. These bars are made ornamental, and in the better class of stoves the surface is electroplated, usually with nickel. These bars are made in the better class by employing a drawn metal tube of sufficient strength to sustain the feet, the ends provided with an ornamental tip introduced into the ends of the tube. They are sometimes filled with wood, or maybe with a metal bar, to give them greater strength. The tubes are usually of brass, so that they may be polished and left presenting the brass surface, or electroplated. These tubes are expensive, and add materially to the cost of the stove. If the bars be made of iron, say as an iron,A rod, the surface requires to be finished and polished, making the expense very nearly as much as the liner metal tube. In the employment of the tube, if an ornamentation of the surface is desirable, the range of ornamentation is eX- tremely limited,I as it must be of a character which can be made in drawing the tube or in the lathe, as by spinning or turning.

The object of my invention is to cheapen the cost of manufacture of the bar to a very considerable extent, and at the same time permit a great variety of ornamentation upon the surface; and it consists in a hard met-al tubular body combined with a thin sheet-metal jacket folded around the body, and a cap applied to each end to inclose the end of thejacket, as more fully hereinafter described.

The tubular body A may be made from stout sheet-iron simply bent into tubular shape, bringing its two edges to abut together, as at u, there being no occasion for a brazed or welded joint. The jacket or outer surface is made from a strip of sheet metal in length corresponding to the length of the body-that is, the bar required-and in width to little more than surround the body. This covering is folded around the body, and should be so that the edges will overlap, as at b, Fig. 2. At each end a cap, d, is applied, its llange eXtend ing onto the outer covering, as seen in Fig.,l. Through each of these caps is a central hole, e. Longitudinally through the bar, and extending through the hole in each cap, is a rod, C. The holes in the cap locate this rod in a central or concentric position. Its ends arescrewthreaded, as at f, and onto the projecting end ofthe rod the tips D are screwed, as seen in Fig. l.

By thus making the body from a strip of metal bent into tubular shape the cheapest possible body is produced.

By making the covering from sheet metal I am enabled to employ rolled metal, havingits surface ornamented in the process of rolling, and thereby produce a great variety of' ornamentation, and with no additional eost, as the cost of rolling an ornamental surface is no more lthan that ot' a plain surface.

The surface of the covering may be electroplated or finished in the sheet, so that no labor is required upon it other than simply wrapping it around the body.

The caps at the end securely hold the covering to the body at the ends, and there is no liability to separate at other points. The joint, it will be understood, isllidden by being placed upon the back or under surface, where it will not appear to the eye. It will be seen, thereA fore, that this construction enables me to proA duce a highly ornamental bar at a cost very much less than even the plai nest bars as heretofore produced.

The cap maybe made as a part of the'tip, as seen in Fig. 3, the flange embracing the covering, the same as in the separate cap; yet I prefer to apply the cap to the bar independent ofthe tip.

While this bar is designed with special reference to use upon stoves, its construction may IOO be applied to similar metal bars for other purthe sheet-metal covering B, folded around said poses, as for Windoucurtnin bars, forillustrabody, the cup el, applied at the ends of the bar,

tion. and so as to inolose the covering at the ends,

I elnini- Athe rod C, longitudinally through said bau' and 1 5 l. The herein-described metal bar, oonsistooneentrieally through the caps, and tips D ing 0f the tubular bOdY A, and the sheet-metal l applied tothe ends ofthe said rods and against covering B, folded around the said body, coin the suidedps, substantially as described.

bined with a cap at the ends to inolose the end HENRY A. MATTHEWS. ofthe covering, the ends terminating in al tip, Vtnesses: 1o D, substantially as described. NELsoN J. WELLOW,

2. The combination of the tubular body A, WM. S. HICKOX. 

